George G. Gilman

Biography

GEORGE G. GILMAN (11 December 1936 - 23 January 2019) was a pseudonym created and used by the near-legendary Terry Harknett -- is so well-known to western readers for his Edge and Steele books, that he hardly needs any introduction. Arguably the most influential British western writer of the last 50 years, his tough, graphic, wise-cracking westerns are still in demand, even though almost twenty years have now passed since the last one was published.

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Series

Adam Steele
The success of Edge led George G. Gilman to create a companion series featuring a shorter, greyer and somewhat milder (though no less murderous) anti-hero: ADAM STEELE. Steele's life, as that of his forerunner, is changed dramatically and forever at the end of the War. In The Violent Peace (1974) he embarks upon a vengeance hunt when his father, wrongly suspected of being a rebel sympathiser, is lynched in the aftermath of President Lincoln's assassination. In the process he's forced to kill his best friend, a marshal, and in turn becomes a wanted man himself. The story was based upon an unfilmed screenplay that Harknett wrote for a producer who had been unable to buy the movie rights to the Edge series.
Edge
Edge: A veteran of the Civil War with fifty-six kills to his credit, Edge is a six foot three inch Mexican-Swedish halfbreed whose armory includes a vicious, bone-handled razor with which he is capable of performing any number of graphic disfigurements. a series of violent set-pieces shockingly presented within the framework of a basic, generally off-beat premise, with a humorous punchline forming the ending to each of the twelve to eighteen chapters. Edge really was, as the cover copy promised, "a new kind of western hero." He was violent, anti-social and chauvenistic, and only survived in his harsh, Spaghetti-western style environment by being twice as mean as his opponents.
Edge 54: Backshot
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Edge 55: Uneasy Riders
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Edge 56: Doom Town
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Edge 57: Dying Is Forever
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Edge 58: The Desperadoes
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Edge 59: Terror Town
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Books

Adam Steele 36: The Hellraisers
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 50,960. Language: American English. Published: May 1, 2024 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Adam Steele was doing the shopping. The girl checked off the rest of his list and started packing it all away in a gunny sack. Three new customers who burst in weren’t armed with shopping lists but with guns. Who wanted not provisions but money and didn’t aim to pay but to kill. Three masked men who didn’t know that Steele was not a man to interrupt when he was going about his domestic chores.
Adam Steele 38: High Stakes
Series: Adam Steele. Pre-release—available September 1, 2024. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 51,370. Language: American English. Published by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Dead on time—the last train to Lantana Flats pulled in. Dead on the tracks—one old-timer, a prospector. Barely alive to his predicament—the depot manager. Alert as ever—Adam Steele, just ridden in on the train. While up in the bare hills, a woman waited. Who might be able to show Steele a good and timely stash of gold. And, sure as hell, would introduce him to a whole hurricane of flying lead.
Adam Steele 37: Canyon of Death
Series: Adam Steele. Pre-release—available July 1, 2024. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 43,740. Language: American English. Published by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Nothing was going right. For a man who traveled alone and light, Adam Steele was well burdened with people and possessions: a wizened old-timer, a widow woman and all their worldly goods piled high on a wagon. It was the Apache brave who jumped Steele, disarmed him, held the woman hostage, who convinced Steele that things were going very wrong indeed. And were just about to get worse.
Adam Steele 35: Stranger in a Strange Town
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 44,880. Language: American English. Published: March 14, 2024 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Adam Steele became the owner of two of the finest white Arab stallions he’d ever seen, bought on an impulse at a trailside auction. Trouble was, the law in Braddock was pretty unruly. And possession turned out to be strictly temporary – for Steele and for a whole succession of new owners. Most of whom found out that life could be a pretty temporary business as well.
Edge 61: The Rifle
Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 51,690. Language: English. Published: March 1, 2024 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Edge thought the citizens of Serrano Dinero had the Old Time Religion, he was wrong. All the worldly goods of Seth Fry—who could let everything go to the poor on account he was due to die at noon. A forced sale, vigilante law and a bunch of men getting liquored-up to face the hanging. Not a good time for a stranger to ride into town. For Edge, things were about to about to get a lot worse fast.
Adam Steele 34: The Runaway
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 47,320. Language: American English. Published: January 1, 2024 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
The sight of a good-looking woman was enough to raise the old Adam Steele. Except she was at the mercy of two Apache braves, who wanted her for theirselves. Which was when Steele shot them dead. And found himself saddled with a runaway señorita who spoke Spanish, spelled out an interesting proposition and added up to big trouble.
Edge Meets Steele: Double Action
Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 83,720. Language: American English. Published: December 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western
Six Ute braves, war painted and feathered, who ambushed the stagecoach didn’t have polite conversation in mind. Just killing. Two others who’d never been great on idle chatter: Edge and Adam Steele. Who just happened to be riding within hearing distance of the gunshots and the screaming and knew that the time had come for some actions that spoke louder than words.
Edge 60: The Breed Woman
Series: Edge, Book 60. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 55,550. Language: American English. Published: November 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » USA
Ross, Oregon: Edge had seen the half-breed woman change hands in a poker game. Tall and flauntingly good-looking. Saw her look of resigned contempt when she went off with her new owners. Had even then an inkling that she was about to have a violently disturbing effect on his life in the near future ...
Adam Steele 33: The Valley of the Shadow
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 42,770. Language: American English. Published: October 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
For two bright kids traveling West with their parents in a covered wagon, there’s plenty to see. Like right now they were peering at something they’d never seen before. A dead man. Called Adam Steele. Not dead. Just as near as dammit. Not knowing that the kids had a father, a doctor, who might just be able to patch him up enough to face a hanging.
Edge 59: Terror Town
Series: Edge, Book 59. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 58,880. Language: American English. Published: July 31, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Winton, Oregon: A woman had been brutally murdered and a man hurriedly tried and hanged. The wrong man. Now a person or persons unknown had begun to kill, one by one, all the people responsible. That's the kind of trouble Edge rode into. That was when bad law became lynch law.
Edge 58: The Desperadoes
Series: Edge, Book 58. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 52,780. Language: American English. Published: May 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Like most banks, the Munro, Colorado branch of the Western States offered its customers a range of services. Like all banks, you had to pay for them. Right now the man called Edge was availing himself of one of the facilities to wire $150 on to a sporting house woman he owed up in Cheyenne. Only one thing was holding up the transaction: the other customers, who were holding up the bank.
Edge 57: Dying Is Forever
Series: Edge, Book 57. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 54,480. Language: English. Published: February 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Not that Edge had come looking for the perfect society. Just a man, officially dead, suspected of still living and certainly a father. Leastways, the thin-faced woman with the squalling bundle in her arms had been sure enough about the last to put up the money for the search. And now the peace of Utopia was about to be disturbed: some old wounds opened up by Edge’s questions.
Adam Steele 32: The Wrong Man
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 40,070. Language: American English. Published: January 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Man stretched out on the deserted beach right by the water’s edge. Not working on his tan on account of his being fully dressed. Just lying there with a bullet hole drilled clean between the shoulder blades. But a scene to freeze the blood of a man called Steele. Especially when he looks into the dead man’s face and discovers his own double. And it can only mean trouble for Adam Steele.
Edge 56: Doom Town
Series: Edge, Book 56. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 57,220. Language: American English. Published: December 1, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western
Holderville, Texas was a dying town - half the population already gone. So when the man called Edge rode into town it was pretty much of an unusual happening - and he was only meaning to pass through. Still he did stay around long enough to discover that for a dying town, the gunplay was lively enough and killing looked like being a growth industry.
Adam Steele 31: The Cheaters
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 39,450. Language: American English. Published: November 1, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Accord, Wyoming. To Steele it looked like some sort of ghost town. Nothing moving, no people, no horses, not even a cur dog. Then, suddenly, Steele found people. A crowd gathered on the far side of town, watching. Steele was just in time for the hanging, just in time to get involved in a range war that would stain too much bad blood across the good land.
Adam Steele 30: The Killer Mountains
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 41,850. Language: American English. Published: September 1, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Adam Steele is drawn in to help settlers against a band of Paiute Indians, when they kidnap the preacher's daughter. Steele should have known better to stay out of it but he couldn't let her die (or worse) at their hands. So he broke the Lord's commandment THY SHALL NOT KILL. Broke it time and time again!
Edge 55: Uneasy Riders
Series: Edge, Book 55. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 54,600. Language: American English. Published: August 1, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western
Two horses, rightfully the property of the lawmen who’d just awakened the man called Edge and told him that his horse had been liberated by a night-time thief who’d been liberated from Nebraska’s Carlsburg Penitentiary by his brothers-in-outlawry. At the heart of it: a female liberator. To Edge, there was too much liberating going on. She had to be stopped. Stopped dead if necessary.
Adam Steele 29: The Big Prize
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 43,720. Language: American English. Published: July 1, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Mesa, Colorado, was a nice town. Settled, growing, thriving. When Adam Steele rode in, sweaty and shabby after too long on the trail, leading a gelding with two dead men lashed across the saddle, Mesa was shocked. It drew back but not for long. When they head that a fortune was buried somewhere out in the hills, the citizens remembered how kill. Steel had to stay sharp to stay alive.
Adam Steele 28: Steele's War - The Stranger
Series: Adam Steele. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 44,850. Language: American English. Published: April 30, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western
Adam Steele, settled and accepted. Him and his wife. Until the stranger rode into town. A hard, silent man with an old newspaper photo all crumpled up in his hip pocket. A photo that just happened to show something from his past. A past a man tries to forget. Memories of blood, pumping, hot, vivid red on Confederate gray. Then there is the past you didn’t know about...
Edge 54: Backshot
Series: Edge, Book 54. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 48,660. Language: American English. Published: April 30, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western
The man called Edge, riding easily down from the Rattlesnake Hills in Wyoming Territory, reigned in to watch a man busy at work. Knew at once he was digging a grave. Later, when he hired on with the sick man's wife, he saw the other grave. The one with the elder son, already buried. Backshot, they said, by the younger son. Whose gave was being made ready for when his pa found him and killed him.